What that did was turn Vietnam into “Nixon’s War”, as if LBJ had nothing to do with it.
Yes, yes it did.
I was young then. My older brother was in his first year in college when Kent State happened. He was worried about the draft, of course. He and my dad had some very interesting discussions at the dinner table in May, 1970. And I sat between them. :)
Anyway, my point, which I never really made, was how easily us younger folks were “fooled” by the media and entertainment. I sang that CSN&Y song, along with many other anti-war songs into my early teens, thinking that it was all cool because it was my older brother’s music. Never mind that much of it was based on a false premise, I thought it was music with meaning.
and that’s zactly how John F’n Kerry played it...